Someone Else's Country
eBook - PDF

Someone Else's Country

  1. 417 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Someone Else's Country

About this book

In this fearless, funny, and profoundly moving Australian story, a small boy on a remote cattle station begins a profound journey into an Australia few whitefellas know. It is a journey into another placeā€”a genuine meeting ground for black and white Australia and a place built on deep personal engagement and understanding.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. About The Book
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Singing Country
  6. Look at me when Iā€™m talking to you
  7. Tap! Tap! Ow!
  8. My loud mouth and tight moom
  9. All weā€™ve thought about
  10. You know how to talk to them
  11. Owl Dreamingand goin to the fucken pub
  12. Would you mind keeping it down?
  13. Lunch with Uncle
  14. Wars ya canā€™t win
  15. War and peace
  16. Here is the situation
  17. Baba Du
  18. My good-luck boy
  19. Youā€™re right, Uncle
  20. Take us to Baba Du
  21. Dooligahs in Paradise
  22. You alright, my brother?
  23. Someone elseā€™s Country
  24. Ding! Come out fighting!
  25. Got it from cunts like you
  26. What you do
  27. Carā€™s on fire
  28. Cuppa tea at my place
  29. The head of security
  30. St Kilda gubbahs
  31. Fairhaven footballers
  32. Iā€™ve got your number
  33. Watch out for the landlords
  34. Half a cup
  35. Make a list
  36. The art of making yourself invisible
  37. Fly like a fucken eagle
  38. Two dead men
  39. Blood alcohol .1788
  40. Nunga John Wayne andsomething not right
  41. Cups of tea or flagons
  42. Crow feathers
  43. Wurrung (Warkee) (Waa) ā€” the Crow
  44. Hiding from the killers
  45. Grog is the enemy
  46. Desert herbs and Dream Language
  47. Your jeans and the sunset
  48. Muriel-or-something
  49. Between the men
  50. Last night in Stolen Hill
  51. Our sad, lonely laughs
  52. Sacred Site
  53. Ya werenā€™t doin it for me
  54. The only gub in the photo
  55. Two teams
  56. This champagne bottle is a rifle
  57. Had it all the time
  58. Soon it seems we must be ready
  59. They know how to treat theirwar veterans
  60. Moorroop blessing
  61. Favourite game
  62. Donā€™t blink or youā€™ll miss it
  63. Gum leaves, trains and crying babies
  64. Dadā€™s story: Sunny in the dust
  65. Heā€™s your mate
  66. Planting seeds
  67. Waking dream in Uncleā€™s eye
  68. Hair and Land and fucken bruising
  69. The ammo dump is on fire
  70. Outside the wire
  71. Holding on too tight
  72. Didjeridu
  73. Fucken hell! Did you see that?
  74. Exorcisms in English
  75. Learning the six-times-table
  76. Members only
  77. Easy to kill a man
  78. Canā€™t get a house because of native title
  79. Yupella prom Tanning?
  80. Thereā€™s Nyungars around
  81. Hockshops and a bananaā€™sworth of speed
  82. We should never have given them citizenship
  83. Nar! Weā€™re prom Kā€™rata!
  84. The first family to arrive
  85. Double-edged swords
  86. Spirits can smell ya
  87. Smell them Nyungars
  88. Fitzroy Street Wanjina
  89. Just another fucken wadjulasticking his beak in
  90. What I might do
  91. Go really good way
  92. And every night ā€” singalong party
  93. Looked after by family
  94. Touching sorry scars
  95. Scars on the gravel footy oval
  96. Suck out the hate
  97. The winter(things hidden in my heart)
  98. What the People first saw
  99. What we first saw
  100. Bundi-sticks and tears on the freeway
  101. Naming names
  102. Finish-up
  103. Donā€™t ever drink with them
  104. I canā€™t say no
  105. The loop
  106. After all these years
  107. Adult conversations
  108. On the couch with Family
  109. Right where Jesus got the nail
  110. The Bro
  111. Welcome to Country
  112. In the system
  113. The same conversationmy whole life
  114. As Aussie as you are
  115. Blind leading the blind
  116. Greater love hath no man ā€¦
  117. Acknowledgements